irish cupcakes

guinness chocolate cake + dark chocolate & baileys ganache + espresso & baileys buttercream icing
=
the most divine, irish inspired cupcake.
ever. :)

 

one of my favorite things to do is cook/bake with my mom [who is so talented and has an amazing ability to make the most delicious food!]. last week we attempted a recipe that i found online that combines some of my favorite things: chocolate + guinness + ganache + buttercream. seriously, how could those ingredients be anything but incredible?

we modified the guinness bailey's irish cream cupcake recipe from the awesome annie's eats blog and these cupcakes are seriously divine. you can really taste the stout in the cake and it's perfectly balanced out by the dark chocolate ganache and the sweet buttercream icing.  we found that they are best served cold and as mini-cupcakes.  mmmm, so good.

...i think i might go have one right now :)